A New Jersey tax court voided a surprise property tax bill on a Methodist property, ruling that missing a form is not grounds to lose an exemption without an actual change of use or ownership.

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland set out how UK denominations were responding to Hurricane Melissa, from a £24,000 Methodist grant to the Jamaica Methodist District to appeals by the United Reformed Church, New Testament Church of God and Ascension Trust.

Indiana’s tax review board granted a South Bend Methodist church a full 2025 property tax exemption for the house where its ordained pastor lives, after the church filed a sworn parsonage affidavit.

First United Methodist Church of San Diego is planning affordable housing on its Mission Valley land through a 55- to 99-year ground lease rather than a sale, with a feasibility study modelling a 140-unit family project.

In the 1790s, Jamaica’s Methodists bought a planter’s house in Parade for a chapel, while Kingston’s Scots Kirk needed five years of fundraising. Paul H. Williams traces how the island’s early denominations acquired their first buildings.

A Liberian court ruled that the United Methodist Church’s worship centres, schools and hospitals stay with the UMC, finding that the breakaway Global Methodist Church forfeited any interest when it disaffiliated.

All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, evicted from its building in 2021 after a long property battle, bought a United Methodist church for $11 million including renovations, four years later.

The United Methodist Church sold Baltimore’s 153-year-old Mount Vernon Place church for $500,000 to a local nonprofit, which leases space back to the congregation for $100 a year and plans an $8 million-plus restoration.

Church in the Circle, the Methodist congregation behind Cleveland’s 1928 ‘Holy Oil Can’ landmark, has listed its 54,000-square-foot building on 1.64 acres in University Circle, citing maintenance costs and declining membership.

A new Methodist church dedicated in Freemansville, Antigua, is the fourth chapel built on the same site by a congregation that traces its roots to enslaved women of the nearby North Sound Estate.